Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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